Form email notification

@big-dog1965Feb 01.2007

I use a form that is part php and html I get a notification through email when the form is filled out I was woundering if the was a way to format the incoming e mail to look like the form it was submited from.

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@NightShift58Feb 01.2007 — #You could send yourself an HTML mail as opposed to plain text.

You'll have to rebuild the layout and content of the form and displaying it.

Using ob_start(), ob_get_contents, and ob_end_clena(), you'll be able to capture and store the content of the screen to a variable which you can then send as the body of an HTML.

Make sure to set the MIME header accordingly.See: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

@big-dog1965authorFeb 01.2007 — #Over my head can you explain a bit more

sorry but im very new to this

@NightShift58Feb 01.2007 — #It means that you need a Page2 for your script and that it has to look just like Page1 - if that what you really want to do.

Page2's data will be echo'ed out but display content should be captured by PHP and stored to a variable. This is then sent by mail.

@hastxFeb 01.2007 — #a simple way to think about it, and if you were going to write it all out, is that page 2 could:

grab your variables from the form

assemble them in the desired html output

hold all that in 1 big variable to be used as the message body

mail that big variable specified as an html message

[code=php]
 $input1 = $_POST['input1'];
 $input2 = $_POST['input2'];
 
 $email_to = "[email protected]";
 $subject = "subject matter";
 $message = "<html><head><title></title></head><body>Input 1: $input1<br>Input 2: $input2<br></body></html>";
 
 mail ($email_to,$subject,$message,"MIME-Version: 1.0n"."Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1");
 
 [/code]

@NightShift58Feb 01.2007 — #... a way to format the incoming e mail to look like the form it was submited from.[/QUOTE]Herein lies the challenge...

[B]ob_start()[/B]

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